The Dial, Volume 3Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley Weeks, Jordan, and Company, 1843 - Transcendentalism A magazine for literature, philosophy, and religion. |
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... grace- ful curvatures , and how surely they were coincident with the fluctuations of some mind . I know which way a mind wended , what horizon it faced , by the setting of these tracks , and whether it moved slowly or rapidly , by their ...
... grace- ful curvatures , and how surely they were coincident with the fluctuations of some mind . I know which way a mind wended , what horizon it faced , by the setting of these tracks , and whether it moved slowly or rapidly , by their ...
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... grace , this ethereal gentility . Bring a spray from the wood , or a crystal from the brook , and place it on your mantel , and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing . It will wave superior ...
... grace , this ethereal gentility . Bring a spray from the wood , or a crystal from the brook , and place it on your mantel , and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing . It will wave superior ...
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... grace and the power of design . Yet it was well observed , by a dis- criminating hearer , that the presence of great facts amply made up for these deficiencies , the sense of Mr. Lyell's extensive knowledge , patience , and ...
... grace and the power of design . Yet it was well observed , by a dis- criminating hearer , that the presence of great facts amply made up for these deficiencies , the sense of Mr. Lyell's extensive knowledge , patience , and ...
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... grace and tenderness of his outward apparition , or his sufferings . One artist has shown him transfigured , the same unequalled soul that has given form to the " Weep not for me , " and the other no less significant command , " Feed my ...
... grace and tenderness of his outward apparition , or his sufferings . One artist has shown him transfigured , the same unequalled soul that has given form to the " Weep not for me , " and the other no less significant command , " Feed my ...
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... grace and agility in the dance unsustained , while ever and anon , as she achieves a more difficult step , they ad- vance , surround , and crown her with garlands , making their child their queen , and more stately for their graceful ...
... grace and agility in the dance unsustained , while ever and anon , as she achieves a more difficult step , they ad- vance , surround , and crown her with garlands , making their child their queen , and more stately for their graceful ...
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Page 219 - Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods which are made with hands; so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
Page 362 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and, singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 443 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 362 - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 217 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Page 217 - Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the .Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 361 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 153 - The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.
Page 272 - Diretro al sol, del mondo senza gente. Considerate la vostra semenza : Fatti non foste a viver come bruti, Ma per seguir virtute e conoscenza.
Page 217 - Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.